What a hospital actually charges

Cash prices, gross charges and insurer-negotiated rates for 1070 hospitals — straight from the machine-readable files US hospitals are federally required to publish. No estimates, no guesswork, provenance on every number.

7660754 hospital×procedure prices · 12427 procedures · updated from each hospital's own file

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Most widely published procedures

Ranked by how many hospitals publish a cash price for them — the codes with the most to compare.

Procedure Code Hospitals Lowest cash National median Highest
Prealbumin CPT 84134 946 $5.63 $94.00 $956.78
Carcinoembryonic ag (cea) CPT 82378 945 $7.78 $145.20 $1,421.31
Diabetes (HbA1c) Test CPT 83036 941 $6.81 $79.30 $783.00
Acute hepatitis panel CPT 80074 940 $16.74 $284.95 $2,890.00
Digoxin total therapeutic drug level CPT 80162 940 $5.99 $102.07 $1,053.11
Ferritin CPT 82728 939 $11.55 $102.48 $1,013.86
Transferrin CPT 84466 939 $6.16 $82.00 $827.53
Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe chlamydia trachomatis CPT 87491 939 $16.67 $141.95 $1,407.14
Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe neisseria gonorrhoeae CPT 87591 939 $10.60 $137.67 $1,206.77
Vitamin b-12 CPT 82607 938 $6.05 $100.28 $1,013.86
Procalcitonin CPT 84145 938 $13.44 $161.11 $1,579.77
Hepatitis b core antibody igm CPT 86705 938 $4.91 $89.60 $909.86
Folic acid CPT 82746 937 $5.72 $101.50 $1,026.87
Valproic acid total therapeutic drug level CPT 80164 936 $6.60 $115.00 $1,196.57
Hepatitis a antibody igm CPT 86709 936 $4.68 $89.44 $880.61
Neck (Cervical Spine) MRI (without contrast) CPT 72141 935 $247.20 $2,042.95 $19,842.82
Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) MRI (without contrast) CPT 72148 935 $233.59 $2,080.00 $19,472.20
Progesterone CPT 84144 935 $7.12 $116.00 $1,166.70
Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) MRI (with and without contrast) CPT 72158 934 $257.25 $3,097.92 $29,180.61
Calcium ionized CPT 82330 934 $6.00 $90.00 $860.44

Rarest procedures

The other end of the tail: codes only a handful of hospitals in the country publish a cash price for. With one hospital there is nothing to compare against — that is the point.

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